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    New holiday: Locomotive Day

    I have officially proclaimed February 14th as "Locomotive Day" from now on! That other holiday has been abolished! No more spending insane amounts of mount on stuff like flowers and candy! Feb 14 is now for showing your appreciation of your hard working locomotives for their tireless work...
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    trains DVD?

    train DVD? any good? I was looking at DVDs on Amazon and found some train DVDs, Are the worth buying? Here's a Santa Fe DVD: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000A2ARR/f2002-20
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    Santa Fe takes over Go Train

    :)
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    what loco to use with Go passanger cars???

    My brother got me the Athern 3-pack of Go Transit passanger cars, the're nice, but look out of place behind a Santa Fe loco and I can't find any n-scale Go loco, any suggestions?
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    Railfanning saves life, no film at 11...

    Ever happen to be in the right place at the right time? Usually stuff just goes wrong for me, but today a was going to Purlator to ship some returns for my mother, just as I parked my truck I heard a rumbling. So I looked and seen a CP SD90 & SD40-2 (I think) pair coming down the CP main...
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    how to suggest what u want for Christmas

    For my birthday last month my brother gave a Chineese stone figure of a soldier he bought when he went there this summber with his family. Now I guess it meens something, but I don't have a clue.... So for Christmas I came up with a more direct way of letting Mr. Goldcard know what I want:)...
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    CN is insane

    I was watching the news tonight on CFTO (Toronto's CTV station) and they has a segment on CN and the GO Trains. I missed part of it, but from what I heard, the CN supplied the engineers for the GO Trains in the GTA, and they want to cut back to only ONE engineer in the locos instead of two...
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    ZugDCC re-released

    For anybody that had problems with installing/running ZugDCC 1.08, I've posted an re-release of 1.08. I was using the zip utility built into Windows XP, but that has been causing people problams running on older versions on Windows using other unzip software. Some file would be damaged and...
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    have you ever had to leave NEGITIVE feedback on ebay?

    here's an item i put on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19121&item=3148394569 the auction is long ended. all the required notices were sent to the buyer, he replied one after the first reminder saying he'd pay soon and never another peep out of him. I filed the...
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    look up!

    A shot from a couple weeks ago.
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    brother's kids: the aftermath.

    THEIR GONE!! THey behaved pretty well. Not a loco was touched.:p About an hour after lunch my brother wanted them to see the train. So I unlocked Fort Sunnydale and led them in to my world. I ran my SR PA-1 pair and then the CP SD90 & SD40-2 pair. THe girl got to run the BNSF SD60M...
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    Atlas 40' car too light.

    Anybody else have trouble with Atlas 40' box cars being to light? I have 3 CP box cars, all tend to derail easily, espically behing long locos. So I useall keep them apart and back a bit. Yesterday I pickup some lead weights and put a 1/4 oz square in. Huge differance, the cars the like...
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    how to keep brother's kids away from trains.

    My brother has announced they he's coming this weekend with his wife and kids. The girl is 7 and the boy is turning 3. I have a good size n-scale loyout I'm trying to protect. Today I installed a door on the train room that will be locked most of the time while they're here, but the 2nd...
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    Atlas CP, CP: are they out yet?

    Has anybody seen the Atlas GP-38 or GP-40 CP. CN or GO locos yet? I thought they were to be out by now, but know sign of them.:confused:
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    goodnight everybody (photo)

    Another night shot. Wont you like to live here?
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    use ebay or forum to sell loco?

    A couple months ago I bought a Kato SD90MAC and SD40-2 and matching Digitrax decoders. As I've posted before they just do not like my 9 3/4" turn and not even some 11" when backing up. As great running locos they are I'm thinking about selling them:( :( What getting better resuults...
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    night photo at the station

    Night photo.
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    a place to sleep...

    a place to sleep...
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    new photos of my layout expansion

    Go to http://train.kenttimm.com then click on PAGE 4 to see my newest work.
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    the great thing about DCC...

    I haven't been feeling that great the last couple day, I have bad kness, back etc. WHile I have stationary decoders I usually only use them for computer operation with ZugDCC. But I moved a month ago and haven't got a computer in the train room yet, so I have been running switches manually...